USA HISTORY

This law allowed FDR to sell or lend war materials to “any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”

(A) Yalta Conference

(B) Neutrality Acts.

(C) Nazi-Soviet Pact

(D) ** Lend-Lease Act.

Concept note-1: -Citation: Lend Lease Bill, dated January 10, 1941. Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, HR 77A-D13, Record Group 233, National Archives.

Concept note-2: -The Lend-Lease Act, approved by Congress in March 1941, had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation’s official position of neutrality.

Concept note-3: -On this date, the House of Representatives voted to give final approval to the Lend-Lease Act (H.R. 1776)-authorizing the President to sell, lease, or lend military hardware to any country he designated as vital to American national security.

Concept note-4: -Arsenal of Democracy In December 1940, Roosevelt introduced a new policy initiative whereby the United States would lend, rather than sell, military supplies to Great Britain for use in the fight against Germany.

Concept note-5: -The Lend-Lease Act gave the president the right to lend or lease arms and supplies “to any country whose defense was vital to the United States."